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Originally Posted by Mahoney32  Vipco, you are going cheap on me now, I was hoping for some actual, personal thoughts on the film from you. You can do better than this surely? |
Hahaha, I could write a book on my thoughts of that film.
A very true story of many ex 'superstars' of wrestling , certainly a watered down version of Jake 'the snake' Roberts life story.
Look at Jake, former Wrestling Champ, now a drunken , drug fuelled man that still pulls in the fans just to see him preform his sig move, the DDT , very similar to Randy The Ram.
I like the way they filmed in front of real wrestling fans at the old ECW Arena / Bingo Hall during an ROH and CZW joint show in South Philly as it added 'life' to the matches and captured the intimidating environment of alot of Indie Feds . The places these toppled stars now work are pretty scary joints and the film captured this well.
The he use of a real top draw deathmatch guy Necro Butcher in the Hardcore match, mixing real with fiction , added to the realism and the way it showed wrestling for what it is and not what all the WWE 'marks' think it is , the pre match talk between Necro and Randy comes to mind as one example .
It hit on some raw topics such as blading , and matches were theres gonna be blood without holding previous blood tests , and the massive drug abuse that wrestling as a whole had always tried to keep quiet .
I could go on about the toll on family life due to excessive schedules , wrestlers treated as a disposalbe item, tossed away when the fickle fans of top teir wrestling are sold the next big thing by money hungry promoters , even the comparison to porn, but we'd be here all day, and as Pedro says, to many games to play and not enough time.
Overall a very good film that opened up alot of the dirt wrestling tries to hide but it still held back on a few of its punches.
Sorry for the long off topic post.